Tuesday's Sound Off

Something for people who vacation in the mountains of Pennsylvania to consider. Statistics show that each year more people are bitten by the eastern diamondback, one of the more aggressive rattlesnake species. The eastern is almost identical to its cousin the western diamondback but the difference is very obvious. He’s the one without the little cowboy hat and the big belt buckle.

JIM FITCH

I agree with the suggestion that we stop the criticism and think about the products made in America. I’d like everyone to know there is a Patsy’s Potpourri of Gifts on Philadelphia Avenue in Boyertown. They are made by a lot of local artisans and made in the USA and there’s a very nice assortment.

I attended the Pottstown School Board meeting on Nov. 15. Someone from the senior center was asking the school board to forgive more than $20,000 in property taxes on their new building. As a senior who has paid property taxes for more than 30 years in this town, the school board should do the right thing and help out the seniors who have paid taxes all these years. One school board member even said they have more than $39 million in cash reserves.

PAID MY TAXES ALL THESE YEARS

On Wednesday before Thanksgiving two younger women with two full carts of groceries loaded their car and then just pushed their carts in the parking spot next to them. Then two minutes later here comes a lady twice their age who struggled to get the carts to take them back to the return thing which was just a little bit away. How rude are people.

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In reference to the borough meeting where someone was escorted out of the meeting by undercover police, I saw the video of that. It may not seem like a big deal to some people but it really is. The person did not raise any kind of disturbance, wasn’t unruly. How do you ask a question before you know what they are doing to ask the question about? That’s wrong to me. Is that what our democracy is coming to?

ALLEN RITZ FROM POTTSTOWN

Went to buy a belt. Can you believe everything is made in China? I did find one that I bought though. It was made in Guatemala and I paid $30 for it. Can you imagine how much it costs to produce it?

Here’s a way how the government can save a lot of money. When President Obama gets re-inaugurated in January, just have the chief justice administer the oath of office in the White House, no ceremony needed. How many millions of dollars will you save then?

I was just wondering why newspapers never show a high school senior and their parents signing a letter of intent to attend a college purely on academic basis? It’s always sports related. Is there some shame in attending a college on a four-year scholarship?

JUST CURIOUS

Every time I go to a store and go to the register, they’re always asking for money for the needy. After I see what these needy people get with their food stamps - shrimp, crab legs, made up fruit platters - that is abuse. I cannot give anymore. I think it is disgusting what they can buy with food stamps. They don’t even cook, everything they buy is frozen. Something has to be done with food stamps.

Be on the alert. My wife received a letter in the mail and it said she had won $70,000. It also came with a check for $3,000 drawn on Wells Fargo account and it stated “do not cash until you call us.” When things seem too good to be true, check them out. We went to the bank and the account had been closed. If we had called, they would have asked us for our private information. This is an identify theft scam. We turned everything over to the state police.

I just wanted to say the Douglass (Montgomery) police really need to do something about the speeders on Grosser Road. You take your life in your hands getting your mail or trying to back out of your driveway even.

LONG TERM RESIDENT

All this stuff over in Israel, keep an eye on it as God tells us. The more they speak of peace, there will be no peace. And it starts there. It will move through the world.

Has anyone heard how much China or any other countries have given to us towards our hurricane and flood disasters?